Any recommendations for Spanish lessons in Buenos Aires or Montevideo?
 

Hello Everyone,

Can anyone recommend a good teacher/school where my hubby and I can learn some basic Spanish?

We're going to be shipping our bikes from London to Buenos Aires and thought it would be nice to spend a week or so learning Spanish there or in Montevideo.

There seems to be many schools, some of which seem quite expensive to me but that might just be the way it is.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you :thumbup1:

Anna

Spanish in Argentina and especially in buenos aires is so different from any where else in Latin America. I would recommend Spanish lessons anyplace BUT Argentina!

Hi, thanks for responding.
We are aware of this but we still need to learn some basics. We are starting in Argentina and it will be a long while before we reach places where spoken Spanish is better/easier/has softer accent etc.
It is not an ideal place, we know but... Needs must :helpsmilie:

Now, that is controversial opinion! but hey, you might have impeccable credentials (which I'd like to hear about,) to give such an offensive opinion.

Castillian is spoken propely by educated people in Buenos Aires, and a language teacher is presumably educated.
Uruguayos speak castillian that is hardly distinguishable from Argentine.
Using BA spanish I have travelled to practically every Spanish speaking country and had no problem communicating.

I don't have any credentials at all! My admittedly poor Spanish worked from Mexico south until we got to Argentina, where suddenly I couldn't understand anything.

Will be in ba in a month if you need a guide, 3 beers works wonders with language skills!! Now putting theory in practice in Belo Horizonte with my non existing portuquese

Hi Caminito
How are you enjoying Brazil? We don't even have two Portuguese words between us so would definitely struggle.
Would be great to meet up in BA but we won't be there till late October. How long will you stay in BA for? beer

Hi feria Brazil is fabulous, huge and the people are very kind. Hotels are easy, food is great and petrol is good enough once you understand that they use ron+mon to measure octane , like the usa , rather than ron which the rest of the world use. Common sense rules apply. We always ask where it is safe to walk etc
Eg shell vpower is 87 octane for them but if measured by the ron standard it is 95. Which is more than adecuate.
How long in BA? Don't know, a few months...
I got a portuguese app "nemo" learning 50 words a day (not really)

Oh wow! Sounds brilliant! We won't be going to Brazil at all but very curious about the place! If we manage to meet up in BA, I shall quiz you quite a bit! :D

50 words a day would be amazing! :thumbup1: oh I seriously have to start learning words and phrases... doh